[Clive]

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[Rummyfan]

Bump!

[stanz]

A fitting tribute on Veterans' Day.
Thank you for posting it.

[Clive]

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[JNL]

Tis not due yet; I would be loath to pay him before his day. What need I be so forward with him that calls not on me? Well, 'tis no matter; honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on? how then? Can honour set to a leg? no: or an arm? no: or take away the grief of a wound? no.

Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? no. What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no. 'Tis insensible, then. Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? no. Why? detraction will not suffer it.

Therefore I'll none of it. Honour is a mere scutcheon: and so ends my catechism.

[Kolokotronis]

Thanks so much for this. My old Dad, gone these four years now, would recite this to me on "Armistice Day" every year when I was a child. Tears in my eyes and all that!

[ClearCase_guy]

I believe Billy Bob Thornton is on the record saying that "Shakespeare is crap" -- so, I guess King Henry's speech isn't as good as it appears to be. Right?

[InShanghai]

"That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his passport shall be made,
And crowns for convoy put into his purse:
We would not die in that man's company
That fears his fellowship to die with us."

Let those liberals who want to immigrate to Canada or New Zealand go... I will always be proud to serve my country. And I am proud of the men and women serving to protect my freedom now.
God Bless all of our troops, and may honor be granted to those troops who have paid the ultimate price for our freedom.

Excellent post, and a sincere THANKS!

[mad_as_he$$]

Translation from Shakespeare to Sioux to Klingon to English: "Perhaps today is a good day to die."

If you don't understand it I cannot explain it to you. You either get it or you don't. Shakespeare used a lot more words and made it a very moving moment. The Sioux, in typical fashion kept it short and sweet.

[Savage Beast]

I liked the part about "O! do not wish one more Rather ". (I hope we've seen the last of him and his ilk.)

[OrioleFan]

One of my favorite movies with this in it is "Rennaisance Man".

[Military family member]

A wonderful example of how the arts can contribute to our society.

[OXENinFLA]

Ping.............

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